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My Simple Analytics

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I'm assessing my linux-box for performance, with various desktop-env's and applications. This might provide me useful info for working with my device with optimal performance. As far as now,

Ubuntu + Gnome-classic-session takes upto 310 MiB of memory. Ubuntu + xfce-session takes upto 270 MiB of memory.

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The Story of My Graduation Project

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Two things.

• I'm not Nolan, so this story is going to be bad.
• Next, this might be my last rant, since I'm getting out of dev/null in a few days.

May-June, 2012

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I've seen Nolan's Inception for around four times or something. It's an excellent piece of art blended with pure imagination and creativity with touches of reality to pull us into the movie.

I've been Nolan's premium fan ever since I saw The Dark Knight, its flow of story, and the Joker. He's a genius at story telling, rendering happenings with pure talent. That's bloody difficult than writing code. We have algorithms. He doesn't. We have data structures to frame and hang data. He doesn't. All he has is a visual portal with slots of scenes to tell data. Sorry, story. Though in most cases we have best solutions predefined, it takes a lot of indigeneous artistry to turn our code into something beautiful, a software. Analagous to what he does. He takes an incident, turns it into a story and tells us in the best way possible.

Well, I honor him so much, but there's a very very slight blunder in his Inception, which absolutely doesn't affect any part of the movie's aura even remotely.

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To Be (Un)fulfilled Wishes

So, I'm here @iThoughtz writing this post while watching my wishlist breaking apart(well, not exactly!).
My wishlist of products to build will be

• Automenu - to be completed.
• #Geekosium [An app to push updates to clients]
• #GPAcompare [possibly I never might be able to do this, an excellent idea it is]
• A Javascript masterpiece I could show at places.
• #Blogists [Blog with Gists]
• Habitator

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Log Feb-March '13

It's been quite some time, posting technical stuff and perhaps writing a post itself. I've been learning and doing a lot of things, that still keeps my fingers code-warm.

• I'm into an Internship, and built an alpha version of (Habitator)[https://github.com/FixCorp/Habitator]
• and I even wrote an ultra simple (Android App)[https://github.com/joelewis/filterlite] for filtering photos, out of a request and it works!
• Initially wrote it targetting 14+ apis and had to backport it to work on gingerbread and above
• Tried to code a database-less bloging solution using gists and its api, and pathetically failed with a message saying "The request rate for api.github.com from ..**.* exceeded the limit"
• Nevertheless, I'm not gonna leave it like that. Possibly might complete it by next weekend.
• Used php for api to webpage rendering stuff, and its been a long time pal. I owe php a lot more than any other for saving me out of fibonacci series and meaningless programs!

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Real Smart vs Fakes

I've seen smart people all through my lifelane. I've seen people who call them smart. I've seen people who try to show them smart. I've seen people who are smart. Not given enough space, you are likely to get lost figuring out, among all the above.
I've logged some keys which might help you find the real ones.

• When somebody's smart, it shows.
• When the smartness overshows, stop. He is not.
• Where you find many _I-never-knew-about-that-stuff_s, there is someone smart there.
• When asked a tech-doubt and the guy explains it close to awesome, with all those jargons and whatTheHellareTheseAndWhyINeverHeardTheseTerms terms, stop. He is not.

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